How many baby Northern quolls are in a litter?
A Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyurus). An adult Northern quoll grows up to a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), also known as the northern native cat, the North Australian native cat, the satanellus or the njanmak (in the indigenous Mayali language, djabo” in Kunwinjku in is a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia. Kunwinjku people of Western Arnhem Land regard djabo as “good tucker”. The hair is singed, the gut is removed (but not the heart or liver) and the cavity packed with bush herbs. It is roasted on hot rocks in a hole.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Northern quoll is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Kangaroo Island dunnart weighting only 22 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sminthopsis laniger with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Southern ningaui with 7 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed dunnart weighting only 25 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Northern quoll
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Maximowicz’s vole
- Bornean bearded pig
- Harris’s antelope squirrel
- Eurasian water shrew
- Raccoon dog
- Gray leaf-eared mouse
- Philippine warty pig
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Big-eared opossum
- North American brown lemming
Animals that get as old as a Northern quoll
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.83 years:
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Southern bog lemming with 2.5 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 2.58 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with 2.83 years
- North African elephant shrew with 3 years
- African pygmy mouse with 3.08 years
- Marsh rice rat with 2.33 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with 2.67 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with 3.08 years
- Bicolored shrew with 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern quoll
What other animals weight around 477 grams (1.05 lbs)?
- Squirrel-toothed rat weighting 511 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat weighting 502 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum weighting 426 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting 439 grams
- Pteropus gilliardi weighting 403 grams
- Long-tailed chinchilla weighting 480 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting 474 grams
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel weighting 479 grams
- European hamster weighting 429 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat weighting 445 grams
Animals with the same size as a Northern quoll
Also reaching around 21.4 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Himalayan field rat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lyle’s flying fox gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Texas pocket gopher gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red bush squirrel gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- American pika gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon broad-toothed rat gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky-footed woodrat gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- European ground squirrel gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)